A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.